Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1887-11-18
STATE NEWS.


ASDRosCoGGIS.
| A Lewiston firm are at work on a harness
for parties in California.
Tuesday, the decree in the Belcher will
case was signed, and approved by the Probate
| Court, and DIR. Cheney became executor
under the provisions of the will.
| Charles Harmon, aged %, died of typhoid
fever at Barker Mill, Tuesday. He was
formerly employed BY William Mckinney,
but short time ago went 10 New Hampshire,
where he worked in the woods until stricken
with typhoid. He was brought home to
Auburn but few days before his death.
| A. J. Weston Henry Cushman and T. B.
Davis have contracted to do the wood work
on the Baptist church at Mechanic Falls,
and have the work we'll commenced
| Bray Son have completed the foundation
and laid the stills for their steam grist mill.
The village school at East Auburn has
been closed since Nov 9Th on account of the
illness of the teacher Miss NJ. Wilson of
Turner.
ARoosTooK.
Letter B. Plantation, is becoming fayorite
resort for deer hunters. Many deer and
caribou are being taken in that vicinity.
Twenty residences have been erected in
Houlton the past season, and at least fifty
addition to the above $50 900 school build
ing is being erected there, a Catholic church
to cost probably not less than 1000; a
Presbyterian vestry has recently been COM
pleted and a church is now being erected BY
the same society.
John Smith, of Monticello, who was ar
rested few days since for smuggling, by
United States Deputy Marshal B. F An
drews, was fined 1892 and costs. This is
rather costly smuggling.
The Methodist society of Caribou have
built pretty little church on Sweden street.
CUMBERLAND.
1t is proposed to establish circulating
library at Gray village, containing one hun
bred and sixty volumes of the best literature
that can be procured.
ID. c. McIntre of Gloucester who is but
little over fifty years of age, has taught sixty
six singing schools, in New Gloucester, Dan
Vile, and surrounding towns. Beside this
he has sung at four hundred funerals. Mr..
NJ. expects TO teach number of schools the
coming winter.
FRANKLIN.
The Lewiston journal SAYS: Several fine
new residences at Strong are nearly ready for
occupancy The Foster toothpick factory
will use 1000 cords of lumber this winter and
employ 40 hands The village streets are to
be lighted with about 30 street lamps. Var
mum b. Mead of Boston was elected Presi-
dent of the Franklin & Megantc Railroad
Company at its annual meeting davis Lodge
+. and A. NJ. now numbers about 20 men,
beers. A building association is talked of
Isaac Harlow of Phillips, 90 years old
was drummer in the war of 1912, and until
,Y;t haa no abl 70
garden and do other work about his home.
OXFORD.
Large quantities of valuable timber at
Stoneham have been DESTROYED by forest
fires of late, mostly the property of J. Bart
lett where serious damage was apprehended
owing to high winds and profuson of dried
vegetable matter.
Several barrels of cider were stolen from
the mill of johnson Haskell at East Water
ford, few nights ago Several warrents
were issued but no clue had been discovered
at last reports.
A. S. Bean of West Bethel has lost pair
of oxen, two young cattle and some sheep
that were on his farm at Pettie's Mills in
Albany. They were evidently poisoned, he
finding salt dropped in spots in his field, with
Paris green and other poison mixed with it,
road between Hebron and Mechanic Falls.
WAsHiNGToN
When S. Hill Harmon of San Francisco
was a babe the first person to hold him in her
arms was Mrs. Palmer nee Getchell. When
Mrs Palmer died he was the only person in
the room and held the dying woman by the
hand at the last moment of life. Both were
natives of Marshield, both emigrated to Cal
ifornia, says the Machias Union.
An individual styling himself as ''Dr. X.
II. Golden of Boston" has been swindling
many of the Lubec citizens recently by pre-
tending to be physician of merit and minis
tering trashy medicines to the sick and sim
pie, charging them exorbtant prices and
claiming to cure all diseases. - Nachids Re
publican.
Wednesday Marshal l.. Coffin, postmaster
at Centre WATERFORD, was arraigned before
United States Commissioner Rand, on the
charge of making false returns of the guam
tity of mail matter sent through his office,
for the purpose of increasing his compensa-
ton. BY instruction of government officials
a count of the mail matter sent from this
office was made at an adjacent Office for sew
eral weeks, and was found to be less than the
returns made by Coffin for the same period.
But as the Limerick through mail appeared
not to have been counted, the respondent was
discharged. 1t is claimed by the postmaster
that the charge was owing to grudge that
existed towards him by post office inspector.
1t is stated that the amount involved did not
exceed Sl.50.
When Your Nerves Bother You.
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